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What is Best for Maui
is Best for the News
If you wish Prosperity
Advertise in the News
WAILUKU, MAUI, T. if., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1914.
VOLUME XX
NUMBER 51
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Convention
Date Slow
han
It was deckled at a meeting of
the committee which has charge of
the arrangements for the next Civic
Convention, to change the date of the
affair from July 4, 5 and G, to early
in Octohcr. It was felt that
the hotels and hoarding houses
could not huuso the big crowd tlfat
is sure to attend the convention to
say nothing of the race crowd which
always comes to Maui for the
Fourth.
The various committees will have
much more time now to make their
arrangements, and the convention
should bo all the better for the
'change in dates.
The hotel managers have all been
approached on the subject of acco
modations for the visitors, and it is
certain that ample provision will be
made for the comfort of the dple
gates while they are on Maui.
Big Fancy
Dress Bali
April 18
On the evening of April- IS there
will bo a big fancy dress ball which
should eclipse anything of the sort
ever brought off before in Wailuku.
Over seventy ladies have been
named as a huge committee to han
dle the affair and the success of the
ball is thus assured.
The- Maui Racing Association is at
the head of the affair, and it is felt
that there should he a good lot of
..money made through the sale of
tickets. The association needs a
little help and the idea of having
fancy dress ball was thought prefer
able to sending around a subscrip
tion list.
The ball promises to be a bril
liant affair ' and many wonderful
costumes arc being planned for the
occasion. Further particulars as to
tickets, place, etc., will be an
nounced later on.
This afternoon and evening, be
tween the hours of 1 and 7 o'clock,
the voters of the Republican club of
the Fifth, will vote upon the dele
gates they wish to send to the Ter
ritorial Convention which is to bo
held on February 21, in Honolulu.
,ast Monday evening the nomi
' nations were made at a meeting of
the club at tho Wailuku Town Hall
Senator If. B. Penhallow was in the
chair, and there was about a dozen
-Deonlo present. Tho nominations
were: II. B. Penhallow, W. T
Robinson. Geo. II. Cumniings and
J. W. Kalua.
The Primary election is to be
"held today and all voters should do
their duty.
Advertiser Cup
The Advertiser Cup, which is
magnificent sample of the silver
smiths art, is now on Maui tor ex
hibition purposes. Tho cup was sent
to the editor of tho Maui Nkws and
will be shown in Wailuku, Kahului
and Paia. The winning team in tho
Inter-Island series will havo some
thing worthy of commemorating tho
Election
On Today
victory.
ANTI-S
ALOON
AND MAJORITY RULE
Rev. Wadman Writes On
Is Doomed" Claims
Say What Others
In regard to the editorial entitled
'Prohibition" which appeared in
our issue of Saturday, Jan. 24, a
few facts should bo stated.
1st "The majority should rule"
you say. Exactly so, and tne ma
jority is ruling all over the United
Stales in regard to the Liquor
Traffic inasmuch as there has never
been a time in the history of the
Temperanco Reform Movement
when the people were having
their say' as they are now. Nine
States of the Union have gone com
pletely "dry" by vox populi.
Thirty-one other States are rapidly
on the way to the same condition.
Forty-seven millions of the people
of the United States havo "spoken"
and ''voted" and are today living
n "dry" territory. Thcso "dry
places" represent 71 of the entire
uca of the country. "The majority
should rule." Tho liquor traflic is
doomed, "fis the voice of the peo
ple. 2nd "Three years ago the ques
tion was settled in Hawaii," you
state. Do you mean for all time?
Three years is a long period in these
strenuous days of Temperance Re
form. A thousand or more counties
and towns and villages havo voted
the saloon out of commission during
tho past 3 years. Within tho past
years tho Federal Government
has enacted somo drastic legislation
bearing on tho liquor traflic. Only
a few months ago, G.000 prominent
business and professional men as
sembled in Columbus, Ohio, and
after; being addressed by Congress
men, Senators, Governors and
Judges, etc., passed a unanimous
resolution petitioning both branch
es of Legislation at Washington for
such a change in tho Constitution
as will forever abolish the manu
facture and consumption of alcohol
ic drink throughout tho entire
country. Bills to this effect now
await the action of tho Houses at
tho Capital. Our plebcscite vote in
1910 is not now regarded as having
been a fair and faithful rcprcsenta
tion of the vox populi of Hawaii.
Time and space forbid a recitation
of tho causes for such. But they
are well known to all our intelligent
voters. Such a vote today would
show a decidedly different result
Be patient. Our day is coming
The children are growing up. They
have been faithfully taught in the
public schools that alcohol is
poison and their vote will deny
the right of the saloon to exist as a
legalized institution of business.
Three years makes a difference.
3rd "We, tho people of Hawaii,
should have a right to say, etc."
This is very true, and the peoplo of
Hawaii havo spoken spoken long
before any of us were born spoken
in tho years past and gone. Have
wo not read in Hawaiian history of
the efforts they made to protect
themselves against tho tcrriblo in
roads of this evil when it was first
introduced by escaped convicts from
Botany Bay in 1S02? Have wo
not read of tho first Criminal Code
in 1S29, which prohibited tho re
tailing of ardent spirits tho first
law of Prohibition ever promul
gated? Have wo not read of tho
great Temperance Reform Move
ment under Kuakini in 1831, and
tho well-known 5-point pledgo? Is
it not recorded in Hawaiian history
that in 1835, another law of Prohi
bition was enacted by vox populi?
LEAGU
Subject "Liquor Traffic
He Has Right To
Should Drink.
And do wo not remember that when
thcso Islands were annexed to the
United States, the people of Ha
waii" petitioned tho Federal author
ities for laws forbidding gambling,
importation of opium and tho whole
liquor traflic. Laws for the first
two were enacted at Washington,
while the latter was referred back to
the Island for local adjustment,
since which time the liquor inter
ests here and on tho mainland havo
so dominated the political life of the
Territory that "we, tho people of
Hawaii," havo found it impossible
to havo our "say," and this has
been the sad condition of tho na
tives for the past 100 years or more
as their history shows. Is it not
high time for them to have "a
right to say"? If all outsiders
would agree to "hands' off," there
arc many intelligent people who be
lieve that in -18 hours the Hawaiians
would settle the question now and
forever more. Why not try it?
lth "No man should have the
right to say to another, 'You shall
not drink." ' Wo "woosers," as
you call us, don t say that.
Smokers may continue to smoke
and drinkers to drink, though wo
do claim the right to say w h a t
our fellow citizens shall smoke and
what they shall drink. The
smoking of opium is forbidden by
Federal law and now wo seek Fed
eral Prohibition of tho drinking of
alcoholic drinks. The Supreme
Court of the United States has
handed down its decision to the
effect that: "There is no inherent
r i g h t in a citizen of the United
States to manufacture or sell intox
icating liquors. It is not a p r i v i 1-
c g c of a citizen to do so." What
higher authority is needed? What
clearer statement is desired? More
over, tho Supreme Court at a later
day handed down the following de-
Imi .....
cision: x no statistics ol every
State of tho Union show a greater
amount of crime and misery a t
public expenses attributed
to the use of ardent spirits obtained
at retail liquor saloons than to any
other source." Following closely
upon these two decisions bearing so
directly upon tho question of man's
individual rights to which you
refer, tho Federal Government
passed laws prohibiting tho traflic
in all Indian countries, in all mili
tary forts and posts, in tho entire
Navy, in tho National Capitol, in
all National and State Soldiers'
homes, But why should tho Su
preme uourt and the Federal au
thorities of our country interfere
with personal rights? Havo not
tho peoplo of the United States
through their representatives as
much right to settle the National
evil of Inteinpcranco as they had to
settle the National evil of Slavery?
How many managers, book
keepers, drummers, bottlers, team
sters, gaugers, bartenders, waiters
wine-makers, grape-growers ami
other people, who mako their living
out of tho liquor business, will be
forced out of employment and, pds
sibly, the country, by the passing
of tho Prohibition bill? How many
Japanese laborers will leave tho
country also, if they aro duprive(
of their daily drink of sake? Theso
questions will bo answered in the
future in a very decided manner, i
tho Gronna bill docs pass."
(Continued on jiage6.)
K
Anti-Tuberculosis Struggle
Patients Are Better
Justified Itself
The communities and the insti
tutions looking to the Leahi Home
as the center of the Anti-Tubercu-
osis campaign on Oahu, which is
equivalent to be being the cam
paign center for the Territory, can
find exceptionally good cheer in
the annual report for 1913 just
completed by the superintendent,
Dr. A. N. Sinclair.
Most of the contemplated im
provements and changes in mind
at the commencement of 1913, says
the superintendent, in his intro
duction have been carried out
'with the result that the Home is
at present offering facilities for the
treatment of tuberculosis and other
diseases equal to the best institu
tions doing similar work,' any
where." Comparitive and conservative
statistics prove the superintendent's
statements emphatically. The Le
ahi Home has justified itself on a
part of the Territory's economic
system. The percentage of pa
tients it has retrieved from the
desolation of the most terrible and
inviduous disease that man has
fought during the past two thous
and years, is steadily growing un
til this year, as the report shows,
74.5 per cent of those who entered
the institution during 1913, and
whose casts were completed during
that period, left capable of carry
ing on their duties in the full flush
of strength and health.
This splendid and almost un-
equaled record has for its best wit
nesses these patients themselves,
engaged in their daily occupations
almost in refutation of the dictum
relating to the deadliness of the
Great White Plague. The Home
has been crowded to its capacity
with patients; yet the number it
has been able to handle has been
but a small part of the total num
ber of the cases discovered, which
amounted, as the books of the
Anti-Tuberculosis League show, to
662 during the year.
This is the reason that the other
counties are so interested in the
work of the Leahi Home, as each
county must meet the question in
this or another way. With the
exception of the comparitively few
patients who can be harbored by
the Leahi Home, the Kula Sani
tarium of Maui, the Puuniaile
Home of Ililo and the Kauai hos
pitals, the victims of tuberculosis
continue their almost hopeless pil
grimage to renewed health unas
sisted along one of the most dismal
and despairing trails that it ever
befalls the lot of man to travel.
All Chin
Welcomed
On Tuesday morning last the All
Chineso baseball team arrived from
Honolulu, and tho boys were at
onco taken caro of by friends and
rolativos who whirled them away in
autos to different parts of Kahului,
Paia and Wailuku.
The Chineso ball tossors are well
known on Maui, and, thoy aro al
ways welcome. The boys now havo
an aloha for Maui and made the
trip in order to give the Valley Isl
anders a pointor or two prior to
GOOD WOR
DONE BY
ULOSIS LEAGUE
Is Bearing Fruit Many
Lealn Home Has
Grand Record.
"There is room for congratula
tion on one poilit," says Doctor
Sinclair, in discussing the success
of the tuberculin treatment which
is almost exclusively used by the
Leahi Home, "and a point that is
not open to the same doubt as that
of apparent cures. There can be
no argument on the question of
deaths and a comparison of mortal
ity o'f tuberculosis for.the last three
years is extremely encouraging.
Thus in 1911, the death rate was
379&, in 1912, 40, while in 1913,
the death rate was reduced' to
28."
The superintendent devoted some
space to describing the new method
of classification by which some
cases formerly called apparent
cures are now classified as "arrest
ed." He says:
While the percentage of ap
parent cures is much less than in
1912, the small number is account
ed for by the regrettable fact that
as soon as a patient recovers his
strength and sense of well-being,
he leaves the Home, and his case
can only be recorded as arrested."
lie summarizes the most vital
and interesting of the Home's work
as follows:
A comparison of cases suitable
for the tuberculin treatment
(i. e., cases which are not too far
advanced to expect improvement)
show more favorable results than
when the moribund and hopeless
cases are included. Thus during
the past year, 89 such cases were
treated, 41 of whom remained in
the hospital until the end of the
year, making 48 completed cases
with which to make a comparison
with 1912.
Of these 48 cases, 7 died, but
many of them received but one or
two injections when the treatment
was discontinued, the evidence
showing that they were hopeless
cases. Only two showed no im
proveinent, or one-halt ot one per
cent, as against 10 in 1912.
"Eight were discharged as ap
parent cures or 16 as against
33 in 1912," the superintendent
having already explained this dis
crepaucy by showing how many
cases of apparent cures were being
recorded as arrested. On the
other hand, 28, or 58 were dis
charged this year as arrested, as
against 26 (improved) in 1912.
Or, taking the percentages of those
made capable of earning a living
in comfort and strength in the two
years (the apparent cures and
those improved) we find that in
1912 it was 59 while in 1913 it
was 74.5."
their going to Honolulu, for the Inter-Island
series of games.
Tho All Chineso team will depart
for tho mainland in March, and
will remain away for somo months.
Tho boys havo arranged a long sche
dule of games and should do as woll
as they did tho last time they ven
tured forth. Thcro is a possibility
that tho Chinese team may go to
Japan (or a season, there is somo
talk in that strain.
Some evidence in tho Honda vor
8U8 Island Electric Company case,
was taken before W. F. Crookett,
acting as commissioner, on Wednes
day last. Tho caso is to bo tried in
Honolulu.
Get Together -
Dinner Was
Big Affair
One hundred "Get Togethers''
sat down to dinner at the Maui
Hotel on Thursday evening and,
from start to finish, the affair was
full of interest. Many speeches were
made and the gist of them all was
the same "Get Together."
President F. F. Baldwin, of the
Maui Chamber of Commerce, was
chairman of the evening and, after
opening the proceedings by stating
the object of tho gathering, called
upon variousspeakcrs to address the
diners.
Much to the disappointment of
all those present, there were no re
presentatives of tho Honolulu Ad.
Club on hand. However, a com
munication from President Farring-
ton, of the Club, was read by Mr.
Bevins, the secretary of the Maui
convention. Mr. Harrington re
gretted that the Ad. Club had been
so busy with the Carnival prepara
tions, and tho reception to the Mat-'
sonia, that the Maui trip could not
be made. However, 'Mr. Farrington
wrote to say that the Ad. Club
would be present in spirit and ho
hoped that everyone would have a
good time.
Secretary Bevins announced tho
tentative program for October next,
when the Civic Convention will open
on Maui. 1 lie plans had to be
clianged a lot as the date of the con
vention had been altered from July
to October. However, the plan out
lined on Thursday night may be
changed a lot uefore tho great day
comes.
Theio were eight speakers alto
ucthor and all ot them were brilliant.
A quintet club discoursed sweet
music at intervals, and Miss Hoff
man accompanied them on the
piano. The whole affair was a suc
cess and tho hope was expressed,,
that there may bo many more of
tho same kind of gatherings in tho
future.
aui"
Good Work
On Wednesday last the Chinese
baseball team from Honolulu tried
conclusions with the All Maui out
fit and, after nine innings were
played, and the score then being
tied, the game was called on ac
count of darkness with the tally
standing at 5 to 5.
The All Maui bovs showed up in
good style and the way in which
they played ball made the fans
think that the Valley Islanders
will have a good chance of annex
ing the Carnival honors in Hono
lulu this mouth.
There was a good attendance at
the game on Wednesday and a
number of automobiles were parked
around the ground. The rain that
fell late in the afternoon, somewhat
spoilt the game but there was
plenty of sport all the same.
The lineups and score by innings
follow:
ALL MAUI Carreira, If;' Ka
leo, 3b; English, 2b; Bal, p; Kaha
awinui, lb; Swan, ss; Soarcs, c;
Burns, cf; Kama, rf.
ALL CHINESE W. Desha, cf:
H. Chong Lo, 2b; Lai Ting, ss;
L, Akana, If; E. Robinson. 3b:
"Al m
Markham, c; A. Robinson, rf; A. !
Desha, n: Vim. lb. fi
Score by innings:
12 3 4
Mailt" 2 0 0 0
Hits 3010
Chinese 1110
Hits 2210
5 6 7 8 9 W
0 0 1 0 2- 5 1
10 2 1 210 '
0 10 105 '
110 0 0 77
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